Florida Vistas Book Club: Angel City by Patrick Smith

Event Description

Title: Angel City
Author: Patrick Smith

Join us for our next Florida history book club meeting at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art where we will be discussing the book, Angel City.

After leaving their failed farm in West Virginia, Jared Teeter and his family make their way to Florida with dreams of fishing, going to the beach, and running their own roadside produce stand. What they find instead is a nightmare in a migrant labor camp, where they become indentured servants of a soulless crew chief and his mindless henchmen. Vacillating between hope and despair, Jared must stay alert - and alive - to rescue his own family and the prisoners around him from a life of continued degradation. 

In the year before he wrote Angel City, Patrick Smith did what he called "physical research," disguising himself and joining migrant crews as they picked whatever vegetable that was in season. He mentally recorded the events he encountered and wrote the novel in just a few weeks. 

This book club meeting will also feature the showing of a 45 minute interview of author Patrick Smith as he talks about writing and researching this book. 

Light refreshments will be served. RSVP by calling the Museum at 386-255-0285.

Admission: Free for members, $5.00 for future members.